BTS Jin beat out all five regular members to become the protagonist of the first recording and first penalty win.

In the second episode of tvN‘s ‘Handsome Guys on Sunday’ that aired on the 8th, the ‘Guys’ team’s Cha Tae-hyun, Kim Dong-hyun, and Shin Seung-ho, the ‘Handsome’ team‘s Lee Yi-kyung and Oh Sang-wook, and BTS Jin, who joined as a guest, were depicted engaging in an exciting race to secure the ‘Namhae Yongmunsa Hanging Buddhist Painting’ bingo board, the final battleground heading to the final victory.

The broadcast that day began with the Guys team visiting the ‘Jinju Sancheong Beomhak-ri Three-story Stone Pagoda’. The Guys team, which had a mission to find someone with a birthday and congratulate them, successfully solved the extremely difficult mission as soon as they arrived at Jinjuseong thanks to Cha Tae-hyun’s sense, who found out the birthdays of the staff before the race started.

However, even if they answer the quiz in Jinju, they still have to travel all the way to Namhae to win the final victory. Since the Handsome Team had a nap ticket that allowed them to put the Guys team to sleep for 30 minutes whenever they wanted, the Guys team continued to sit there restlessly, making people laugh.

Soon after, the Guys team‘s worries became reality. After experiencing Jinju’s various cultural heritages, they were about to start the quiz when Jin said, “Let‘s put them to sleep slowly and properly,” and started the nap mission. At this, the Guys team, who had been forced to sleep, made everyone laugh by saying, “We forgot everything we just heard”, and “How can you use such exquisite timing?”

At the same time, the Handsome team’s momentum reached its peak. Jin, who miraculously guessed the correct answer to “Frog Rock” in “Upo Swamp” and became the quiz hero “Frog Seok-jin”, made everyone laugh by repeatedly reminiscing about the moment he got the quiz right. However, Handsome Team had no idea that Guys Team was in Jinju and decided on ‘Changnyeong Gwanryongsa’ as their next destination. Jin confidently said, “A round trip of 40 minutes will give you a hint if you hike for 40 minutes, and if you run, you can do it in 10 to 15 minutes one way.”.

Handsome Team‘s race to Changnyeong Gwanryongsa, filled with confidence that they could overwhelm Guys Team, started to go wrong from this point on. The sudden downpour made hiking impossible, and the chance to get a hint was lost. However, Jin, who was filled with a competitive spirit, did not give in and said, “Shall we solve a quiz now?” with his clear eyes and madness radiated. Even his teammates Lee Yi-kyung and Oh Sang-wook made everyone laugh by saying, “I’m a quiz-crazy person. A quiz-crazy person.”. At this time, a notification popped up saying that the Guys Team had guessed the correct answer in Jinju, and the Handsome Team suffered a mental breakdown. The Guys Team‘s Cha Tae-hyun, who woke up refreshed after a good night’s sleep, answered the quiz, ‘Cauldron’, with the correct answer to the question, ‘During the Battle of Jinju, what item did General Kim Si-min ask to bring from the kitchen to overcome the numerical disadvantage against the Japanese army attacking the castle walls?’.


With this, Handsome Team, who could only achieve the final victory if they took control of Namhae regardless of the success of Changnyeong Gwanryongsa Temple, were gripped by a collective panic, and Jin, who realized that he had already fallen behind the Guys Team, turned from the spirited ‘Frog Seok-jin’ to ‘Mangbu Seok-jin’, frozen like a stone. In the end, the Guys team, who even got the quiz wrong, tried to be happy, saying, “It‘s fortunate that we got it wrong early”, and “The Guys team probably haven’t done the mission to find the birthday yet.”

With this, Yongmunsa Temple in Namhae became the location of the final battle. Cha Tae-hyun burst into laughter, saying, “How can we go to Namhae from the first episode?” Shin Seung-ho also couldn‘t hide his bewilderment, saying, “I didn’t even know we would go there of our own free will. The first thing I did after receiving the bingo card was to mark Namhae with an X.” At this time, Cha Tae-hyun tried to guess the Handsome team‘s movements and write their own winning scenario, and the ’Chagalgongmyeong‘ class, who perfectly guessed the Handsome team’s behavioral patterns, gave me goosebumps. And the Guys team, who arrived at Yongmunsa Temple first, couldn‘t hide their excitement at the fact that they had seized the opportunity, and they even had the honor of welcoming the real-life Gwaebul Painting, a treasure that had only been shown to the public twice before.

However, the Guys team was also in a situation where they would be completely wiped out if they failed the quiz in Namhae. At the same time, Jin, who was urging his steps, was struggling with self-reproach, saying, “It’s my fault, it‘s my fault. I dragged my teammates into the pit of evil.” At this time, Lee Yi-kyung, Oh Sang-wook, and Jin, seeing that the Guys team members were not answering their calls and that the notification that they had answered the quiz in Namhae was not coming up, became convinced that the Guys team had gotten the quiz wrong, and they lit a new spark of hope.

Then, the Handsome team quickly finished the mission of ’Washing the Car‘ and ran to Yongmunsa Temple while turning on the happiness circuit, but the Guys team appeared in front of them in high spirits, and the final victory was decided. As soon as Cha Tae-hyun was presented with a quiz asking about ‘A Buddhist term meaning a place to build an altar outdoors and listen to the Buddha’s teachings’, he easily guessed the correct answer as ‘Yadanbeopseok’, and then gave up ‘Leaving work on time’ and waited, intending to tease the Handsome Team.

After that, the fate of the Handsome Team members was decided over the ‘Agwi catching fishing’ penalty, which made things even more interesting. Because of the size of the anglerfish catching boat, some people were exempted from fishing, so a quiz competition for the exemption took place on the spot. Jin, who was the Handsome Team‘s answer fairy all day long, Lee Yi-kyung with a 0% correct answer percentage, and the simply cheerful 96th youngest Oh Sang-wook, Jin’s easy victory was expected, but there was a twist. Following Oh Sang-wook being the first to get the right answer and earning immunity, Lee Yi-kyung guessed the correct answer in the last round of quizzes, creating a strange scene where a guest was punished on the first recording of a variety show for the first time, causing laughter. In the end, Jin headed to the sea the next morning, and instead of the mackerel fishing that was canceled due to the strong wave warning, he took on the mackerel packaging part-time job penalty, saying, “I don’t think I can forgive Oh Sang-wook and Lee Yi-kyung. I’m going to make sure these two guys get beaten up soon,” and vowed revenge.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com Reporter projecthong@donga.com